Camerooooooooon!!!!!

The World Cup starts today. In fact, Germany is playing Costa Rica right now!!!! I love the World Cup. Soccer on television can be boring, but a cool thing about it is that, like baseball, you can have it on in the background and just pay attention to it vaguely and you can still get all you need out of it. People who watch baseball but call soccer boring are weird.

It's a national holiday in Costa Rica today. How cool is that?

Germany scored 5 minutes in. Beautiful shot. Costa Rica is going to lose big time, I think. Go Germany!!!!

Costa Rica tied in 10 minutes in. Nice pass to an onside - just barely - player. Still, I think Germany will win. They should. Go Germany!!!!

(By the way, the cryptic title of this post refers to the 1990 World Cup, when Cameroon advanced to the quarterfinals. My roommate in college spent the summer in Austria and met a Cameroonian (?) who was very excited about his country's run. At one point while they were at a bar watching, the guy just kept jumping up and shouting "Camerooooooooon!!!!!" I love that people get so excited about this. Americans don't get it, which is kind of a shame.)